ACT: World's Great Jazz Orchestras series discography This is a discography of albums released in the ACT World's Great Jazz Orchestras series. The World's Great Jazz Orchestras was a short series of albums released between 1996 and 2002. ACT pages on the site: ACT albums are listed in groups based on the main numeric part of the catalog number. Most of these numeric sequences comprise the main run of ACT albums. Other group together various editions and series. In addition to the catalog number pages the site also provides lists of albums released on a number of sublabels and series. ACT albums by : catalog number ACT sub labels : and series 6000-6023  |   7000-7009  |   9000-9070  |   9100-9105  |   9200-9299  |   9400-9499  |   9500-9599  |   9600-9699  |   9700-9799  |   9800-9899  |   9900-9999  |   ACT20  |   Christmas With My Friends  |   Duo Art  |   Essentials  |   Fahrt Ins Blaue  |   Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic  |   Magic Moments  |   Nu Jazz  |   Piano Works  |   Signature Edition  |   Vocal Jazz  |   World's Great Jazz Orchestras  |   young german jazz  |

Only four albums in this series have been identified. There are probably some missing from the list.

Big Music, The Michael Gibbs Orchestra, 1996, ACT CD 9231-2 Tracks : Wall To Wall, Pride Aside, Kosasa, Almost Ev'ry Day, Waterfront, Watershed, Mopsus, Adult, Pride Outside Musicians : Mike Gibbs, Allan Rubin, Earl Gardner, Ian Carr, Lew Soloff, Dave Bargeron, David Taylor, Julian Argüelles, Bob Mintzer, Lou Marini, Jim Odgren, Chris Hunter, Dave Tofani, John Clark, Brad Hatfield, Dave Bristow, Django Bates, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Kevin Eubanks, Dave Fiuczynski, Duke Levin, Kai Eckhardt, Bad Bill Martin, Bob (Rahboat Ntumba) Moses, Ben "Been Jamming" Wittman

Electricity, Bob Brookmeyer, 1996, ACT CD 9219-2 Tracks : Farewell, New York, Ugly Music, White Blues, Say Ah, No Song, The Crystal Palace Musicians : Bob Brookmeyer, Andy Haderer, Klaus Osterloh, Rick Kiefer, Bernt Laukamp, Dave Horler, Roy Deuvall, Heiner Wiberny, Olivier Peters, Paul Peucker, Rolf Römer, Frank Chastenier, Rainer Brüninghaus, John Abercrombie, Dieter Ilg, Danny Gottlieb

Bravissimo: 50 Years, NDR Bigband, 1996, ACT Tracks : The Cat, Blue Monk, Voodoo Chile, Sagma, Night In Tunesia, Take The A Train, Supraconductivity, Sister Sadie, Mood Indigo, Django, Descent, Country Roads Notes : A collection of NDR Bigband recordings made between 1980 and 1995.

Bravissimo II, NDR Bigband, 1998, ACT CD 9259-2 Tracks : Blues For Alice, Come Sunday, Piano Groove, Carpet Ride, O Vos Omnis, This Old Fairy Tale, Love For Sale, Round About Midnight, My Funny Valentine, After You've Gone, Mosher, Red Horn, Go Musicians : John Surman wrote, arranged and plays on the track Carpet Ride Recordings made between 1984 and 1997.

Last updated March 2026